Networks – Page 1282
-
News
Flightwest and MBA prepare to begin new Australia-PNG services
Flightwest Airlines of Brisbane is preparing to fly between Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG), using capacity to be released by Australia's International Air Services Commission (IASC) following agreement late in 1996 on a new Australia/PNG bilateral (Flight International, 6-12 November, 1996). The IASC says that the Flightwest ...
-
News
Lithuanian introduces Saab 340 on regional flights
Lithuanian Airlines (LAL) is leasing two used Saab 340B turboprops to develop regional routes from Lithuania's capital Vilnius. The first of the two used aircraft, formerly operated by now-defunct Spanish regional Prima Air, came into service in mid-January. The second will follow in April. LAL will ...
-
News
Boeing regains popularity in China
Boeing is beginning to enjoy a revival in the number of its passenger aircraft being ordered and leased by Chinese carriers, as political relations between Beijing and Washington continue to show signs of improvement. After a year in which Boeing recorded total sales of only three aircraft in ...
-
News
Sabena discusses outsourcing more of its loss-making routes
Sabena is seeking to extend its policy of outsourcing loss-making routes to low-cost operators, with its Antwerp, Belgium, to London, UK, services expected to be taken over on 1 April by VLM. The Antwerp-based regional already operates four daily return flights between Antwerp and London City Airport with ...
-
News
Continental to Europe
Continental Airlines plans to expand its transatlantic services later this year, with the introduction of a New York (Newark International) to Birmingham, UK, service on 1 July. The US carrier will use Boeing 757s on the route. Source: Flight International
-
News
Air Littoral orders more Regional Jets, evaluates CRJ-X
Air Littoral has signed a $133 million deal with Bombardier Aircraft for seven Regional Jets, with options on a further five. The Montpellier, France-based regional airline is also seriously evaluating the stretched 70-seat Bombardier CRJ-X regional jet. All seven aircraft, which are in addition to the nine Regional ...
-
News
Cathay Pacific
Henry Fan, managing director of Citic Pacific, has been appointed to the non-executive position of deputy chairman of Cathay Pacific Airways. Capt Ken Barley has been named director of flight operations, succeeding Capt Gerry Clemmow, who retired at the end of 1996. Barley also replaces Clemmow on the Cathay Pacific ...
-
News
Cessna delivers first 172R to US AOPA president
Cessna Aircraft has handed over the first new 172R to US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) president Phil Boyer. AOPA took the aircraft on behalf of member Sharon Hauser, who won the 1997 Skyhawk in an Association sweepstake. It is the first Skyhawk to be delivered by the manufacturer ...
-
News
Deutsche BA aims to return to profit by 1998
Deutsche BA has unveiled a new strategy, aimed at putting the airline into profit within 18 months and refocusing on internal German services. Since its launch by British Airways in mid-1992, the carrier has rapidly established itself as Germany's second-biggest after Lufthansa, but is still struggling to make a profit. ...
-
News
Garuda profits
Garuda Indonesia managed to show a net profit for 1996, but largely as the result of selling off unwanted assets. According to the country's transport minister, Haryanto Danutirto, the state-owned carrier ended the year with an overall profit of 124 billion rupiah ($73.2 million), but that masked a loss of ...
-
News
Virgin Express may pull out of its Brussels base
Virgin Express, one of the pioneers of Europe's low-fares air market, reports that it grew by one-third in 1996 and expects to report a profit despite the dramatic growth. The announcement comes, however, with a veiled warning that Belgium's high social costs could persuade the carrier to leave ...
-
News
Boeing on track for massive sales hike
Boeing expects sales to grow by $10 billion this year, even without the pending McDonnell Douglas (MDC)merger, with commercial-airliner production rates virtually doubling by year-end. Group sales recovered to just under $22.7 billion in 1996, while Boeing's net profit climbed back above $1 billion. The real upturn, however, ...
-
News
Sabena denies Swissair rumours
Sabena chief executive Paul Reutlinger has denied growing speculation that Swissair is preparing to pull out from the alliance with its struggling Belgian partner if the carrier's unions fail to agree on new working conditions and wage structures. Rumours of a possible pull-out were revived by confirmation that ...
-
News
Cathay will launch FANS 747 flights by year's end
Cathay Pacific Airways plans to finish equipping its entire fleet of Boeing 747-400s with future-air-navigation system (FANS-1) equipment by March and hopes to be operating on the first communications, navigation and surveillance/air-traffic-management (CNS/ATM) route across the northern Pacific Ocean by the end of the year. The Hong Kong ...
-
News
The big issue
BOEING'S REVELATION that it will not be competing in the very-large-airliner market with a derivative of the 747, thus apparently leaving Airbus Industrie's A3XX with a clear run, has certainly raised more questions than answers. While attention has focused on Boeing's doubts about lack of "sufficient market demand" ...
-
News
Boeing calls halt to 747-X programme
Boeing has shelved its 747-500X/600X plans, opting instead to focus on development of the 767-400ERX and 777-200X and 777-300X long-range high-capacity twins. An update of the 747-400 is now a possibility. Boeing Commercial Airplane group "senior officers" decided on the sudden move at a meeting in mid-January, but the announcement ...
-
News
-Steps up tempo of long-range 777 work
Boeing has revealed new details of its plans for heavier versions of the 777, which will be led by the -200X effort, which the company hopes to launch, along with the -300X, at the time of the Paris air show in June. The projected entry-into-service date for the ...
-
News
British Mediterranean continues partner search
British Mediterranean Airways (BMed) is working to overcome the failure of its planned franchise agreement with British Airways by instigating the expansion plans originally envisaged as part of the link-up (Flight International, 18-24 September 1996, P9), and is continuing its search for a new airline partner. Des Hetherington, ...
-
News
Polar Logistics serves Antarctica with Hercules
Polar Logistics has started direct passenger and cargo flights between Cape Town, South Africa and Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, using a Lockheed Martin L-100-30 Hercules leased from Southern Air Transport. The 4,230km (2,300nm) flight takes around nine hours, carrying a 6.8t payload. Polar, which specialises in "high-latitude" operations, initially plans ...
-
News
Alliance launched
Austrian Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Sabena and Swissair, will start their Atlantic Alliance programme on 1 February, harmonising reservation, sharing income and streamlining fare policies. On 15 May, Sabena will inaugurate codeshared scheduled services from Brussels to Cincinnati, Ohio. Delta will restructure its operations at Frankfurt (Germany), and add services ...